Word: rah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's deans spend it: $700 million a year. Its investors amass it: a $3.5 billion endowment. Its rah-rahs raise it: $359 million a few years back...
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Harvard is certainly not a very rah-rah place. And Harvard students, as a rule, aren't very good at being rah-rah...
Although all of the actresses occasionally stumble over their lines, each plays her one-dimensional, stereotypic role well, and by the end of the first act, any doubts about whether Harvard students can be rah-rah have been dispelled. Now we want to know if they can do more than just be rah-rah...
...conservative youths. Polls show that today's young voters are further to the right than their counterparts ten years ago and thus more receptive to Kemp's paeans to economic growth and an "opportunity" society. Nonetheless, Kemp's speeches tend to be either snoozers about monetary policy or rah-rah pep talks that leave skeptics wondering about his ability to grapple with complex issues. ("How smart is Ronald Reagan?" counters John Buckley, Kemp's press secretary...